Themes

• Amazing Grace Autumn Concept BlueBlack Falling Leaves Island After Sunset Platinum Vidiyal

Tags

barack_obama beauty climate_change death_penalty earth faith follow_jesus forgiveness god grace human_dignity human_rights humility interrogation iraq jesus justice love movie nuclear_weapons peace politics poverty revenge rule_of_law stoney terrorism torture united_church_of_christ war

• Recently Written

  • going to new orleans
  • nrdc update: 37 wolves killed
  • i applaud jimmy carter
  • here!
  • justice stevens disavows the death penalty
  • disconnected faith?
  • more on jeremiah wright
  • on earth as it is in heaven
  • ucc runs an ad
  • putting the wolf in danger

• Recent Comments

  • Tim: James Wall expresses similar sentiments in an editorial piece in The Christian Century: Carter’s Middle...
  • John Gibson: I find it very interesting while checking out this blog that the dealth of wolves be mentioned but...
  • San: It’s nice to see a strong poem featured here, one that is laden with meaning in an open-ended, mysterious...
  • Tim: David: I trust the Lord will treat you with considerably more charity and grace than you have treated his...
  • David F., Evanston IN: From http://www.ucctruths.com Jeremiah Wright for UCC President Wednesday, April 30, 2008...
  • Carol Graffius: The greatest warrior that ever lived in my eyes and in the eyes of the Lakotas was Crazy Horse....
  • Tim: They should have been mailed an invitation, Erika. We’d love to have them join us! So by all means,...
  • Erika Elizabeth: I was wondering if Jubilee Methodist on the Eastside was invited to partake in Cool Congregations? I...

• Admin

  • Register
  • Log in
  • Wordpress
  • XHTML

Subscribe

peace on earth

Posted on December 21, 2007 | Filed Under humility, peace, poverty 

Rachel Simons lives in Galati, Romania, a field worker with Word Made Flesh, an Christian organization committed to “serving Jesus among the poorest of the poor.” She works with Galati’s street children, providing them educational and recreational and spiritual programs, and interacting with them on a daily basis in their own context on the streets.

The following is taken from one of her recent prayer letters:

… around the holidays I constantly run into children begging outside of restaurants, shopping malls, supermarkets and at stop-lights. They know that people tend to give more in December, so they bear …

the great moral issues of our time

Posted on March 13, 2007 | Filed Under general 

I quote below a portion of Jim Wallis’ response to James Dobson’s characterization of the “great moral issues of our time.” Dobson coauthored a letter to the National Association of Evangelicals objecting to their inclusion of climate change among the issues they have chosen to address as leaders of the evangelical Christian movement.

Dobson named the “great moral issues” as “the sanctity of human life, the integrity of marriage and the teaching of sexual abstinence and morality to our children.” … I believe the sanctity of life, the integrity and health of marriages, and the teaching of sexual morality to …

nobel peace prize for micro-credit pioneer

Posted on October 13, 2006 | Filed Under general 

Britain’s Times calls it a truly inspiring choice.

This year’s Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Muhammad Yunus, a citizen of Bangladesh and a man with a dream to bring an end to poverty. His strategy has been to make small loans to people with little income, women in particular, people ineligible for conventional loans. These “micro-loans” help to raise people out of poverty by empowering their own entrepreneurial skills and enabling their own income-producing capacities.

It works. It works in Bangladesh. It works in Haiti. I have a special interest in Haiti, having spent nine days there in the summer of …

a test of national character

Posted on October 14, 2005 | Filed Under justice 

Our initial response to the victims of hurricane Katrina was a test of our national character, a test we largely failed. Since then, government agencies and especially non-governmental agencies and groups and single individuals have distinguished themselves by acts of genuine compassion and timely help to dislocated families. But there is much, much yet to do.

Our long term commitment to the rebuilding of the ravaged Gulf coast and to the restoration of livable communities in that same region will also test our national character. Katrina exposed the nightmares within the American dream. Katrina revealed the huge …

a “natural” disaster?

Posted on September 8, 2005 | Filed Under justice 

Among the letters read on air today during NPR’s Morning Edition program was a letter from an Arizona correspondent objecting to an NPR story that cited the disproportional effects of hurricane Katrina on people of color and people of low income. He wrote: New Orleans is a sandcastle built at low tide … The storm did not discriminate on the basis of race or class.

Absolutely right. The storm did not discriminate. People discriminate! And discrimination did lead directly to greater suffering in the aftermath of the storm among people of color and people of low income. Poverty means you …

Comments